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Genres:
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Action /
Horror /
Sci-Fi
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Director:
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John Carpenter
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Actors:
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Joanna Cassidy,
Lobo Sebastian,
Doug McGrath,
Rosemary Forsyth,
Richard Cetrone,
Liam Waite,
Natasha Henstridge,
Ice Cube,
Jason Statham,
Clea DuVall,
Pam Grier,
Duane Davis,
Rodney A. Grant,
Peter Jason,
Wanda De Jesus
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Duration:
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98 min.
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Rating:
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(4.7/10)82.5
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Plot Summary:
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From commandant John Carpenter comes a sci-fi thriller full of chancy action and bone-chilling suspense that recalls such earlier Carpenter classics as Assault On Precinct 13 and The Thing. Natasha Henstridge is Melanie Ballard, a headstrong police lieutenant on Mars in the year 2025. Humans have on the agenda c trick been colonising and mining on the red planet for some time, but when Ballard and her squadron are sent to a remote zone to apprehend the treacherous crooked James "Extirpation" Williams (Ice Cube), they descry that he's the least of their worries.
The mining operations press u... nleashed a dull army of Martian spirits who functional over the bodies of humans and won't stop until they put an end to all invaders of their planet. With a main designate including Pam Grier, Jason Statham and Clea Duvall, as well as peerless special effects, John Carpenter's Ghosts Of Mars is an intergalactic terror fest different from anything you've seen...
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Ghosts of Mars
Trashy horror sci-fi from the once-great John Carpenter about the vengeful former inhabitants of Mars possessing the new residents - us
Natasha Henstridge gets the chance to follow in the combat-booted footsteps sci-fi's tough women - Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hamiliton - in this monstrosity from John Carpenter.
Henstridge plays Melanie Ballard, a cop on 2076's terraformed Mars. In flashback, she recounts events at the isolated Shining Canyon mining community. The poor mining folk were transformed into slathering, self-mutilating goth warriors (announced with a soundtrack peel of Marilyn Manson-style thrash guitar) after the unearthing of the 'ghosts' of Mars' former inhabitants. After her commanding officer (Grier) is decapitated, Ballard and her cop colleag...
Lacklustre
Once upon a time John Carpenter was the coolest thriller director on the planet. 'Assault on Precinct 13', 'Halloween', 'Escape from New York'. Then came 1982 and he got his biggest budget and made his masterpiece, 'The Thing'. Unfortunately 1982 was the year of 'E.T.' and dark SF was no mans land, so like 'Blade Runner' Carpenter's piece de resistance was roundly damned (although later hailed by the same critics and audiences who shunned it at the time). More unfortunately Carpenter seems to have taken the drubbing to heart as he hasn't made anything half as good since.
I keep on hoping that the next Carpenter release will be a return to form. After all, he's always rehashing the same siege plotline of Howard Hawks' &#...
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